Head Study of an Apostle

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders Head Study of an Apostle

Object details

Title

Head Study of an Apostle

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

62.5 x 49.6 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [Van Hout 2021]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Inv. no.

798 F

Provenance

Théodore Patureau (1798-1876), Antwerp;
his sale, Drouot, Paris, 20-21 April 1857 (28), as Rubens;
bought by Barthold Suermondt (1818-1887), Aachen;
sold to the Royal Museums in Berlin, 1874.

Literature

Literature

Brussels 1873, p. 27, no. 58;
Ménard 1873, p. 535;
Brussels 1874, pp. 52-53, no. 142;
Mantz 1874, p. 378;
Meyer/Bode 1875, p. 115, no. 129;
Berlin 1878, p. 329;
Berlin 1883, pp. 393-4;
Rooses 1886-92, no. 255, as Rubens;
Bode 1906, p. 264, as Van Dyck;
Berlin 1931, p. 144;
Glück 1931, p. 33;
Glück 1933, p. 161, as a work by Van Dyck in Rubens’ studio;
Van Puyvelde 1959, p. 144;
Varshavskaya 1963, p. 93ff;
Berlin 1975, p. 141;
Gemäldegalerie Berlin 1986, p. 282, no. 933;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 136;
Lepper 1989, p. 238, no. 142;
Berlin 1996, p. 43;
Barnes et al. 2004, pp. 17, 19 n.23 (N. De Poorter), as no consensus between Rubens or Van Dyck;
Avery-Quash 2011, I, p. 619, II, p. 229 (travel note books of Sir Charles Eastlake);
Bulckens 2017, p. 134, no.29b, fig. 132, as Van Dyck;
Van Brink/Birth 2018, p. 326, no. 116, as Van Dyck;
Van Hout 2020, I, pp. 42, 233-4, no.99; II, fig. 339, as Van Dyck.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 164
Dated: AD 1442 – 1605
Felled: After AD 1615 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 106
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

08 April 2019

Dendro report no.

GE019/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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